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HUNINGUE. 



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The series of buildings which have "been erected at 

 Huningue are admirably adapted to ' the purpose for which 

 they have been designed. The group forms a square, the 

 entrance portion of which two lodges is devoted to the 



GROUND-PLAN OF THE PISCICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT AT HUNINGUE. 

 Showing the disposition of the buildings and the situation of the experimental watercourses. 



corps de garde, and the centre has been laid out as a kind of 

 shrubbery, and is relieved with two little ponds containing 

 fish. The whole establishment, ponds and buildings, occupies 

 a space of eighty acres. The suite of buildings comprise at 

 the side two great hatching-galleries, 60 metres in length and 

 9 metres broad, containing a plentiful supply of tanks and 

 egg-boxes ; and in the back part of the square are the offices, 

 library, laboratory, and residences of the officers. Having 

 minutely inspected the whole apparatus, I particularly 

 admired the aptitude .by which the means to a certain end 



